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A legal document adopted by the League of Nations on 24 July 1922. It was based on the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the understandings reached at the Paris and San Remo Conferences. … Article 25 of the Mandate allowed the British, with the consent of the League of Nations, to “withhold or postpone” the application of certain provisions of the Mandate with regard to the territory east of the Jordan River and administer it separately from the rest of Palestine, a right which it exercised with the Transjordan Memorandum later in 1922.

A secret agreement concluded on 16 May 1916 between Britain and France, dividing the Middle East into spheres of influence ahead of a possible victory against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. … To view the full extent of the territories in question, please consult the original map.

A meeting of four major World War I Allied Powers - Britain, France, Italy and Japan - that followed the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. … The resolution specifically noted that the Mandate for Palestine will be responsible for carrying out the Balfour Declaration, working for the establishment of the Jewish national home without prejudice to the rights of existing non-Jewish communities.

An order dated 27 October 1918 by which part of the territory occupied by the British during World War I, roughly equivalent to today’s Israel and the Palestinian Territories, was officially placed under military government.

An international conference held in Paris during 1919, following the conclusion of World War I. … With regard to the former southern territories of the Ottoman Empire, the conference was followed by the San Remo Conference of 1920, establishing British and French mandatory control over Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine.

A global war conducted between 1914 and 1918, in which the Allied Powers, led by Britain, France, Japan, Russia (to 1917) and the United States (from 1917), fought the Central Powers, led by the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. … The war in the Middle East officially ended with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 between the Allies and Turkey, heir to the defunct Ottoman Empire.

A peace treaty officially concluding World War I in the Middle East, signed between Turkey, heir to the defunct Ottoman Empire, and the Allied Powers, including Britain, France, Italy and Japan. … The treaty contained a recognition of Turkish sovereignty in its current borders by the Allies, in exchange to an official waiver of Turkish claims to the rest of the former Ottoman Empire.

A report prepared by a commission led by two Americans, Henry King and Charles Crane, that was completed on 28 August 1919 and published in 1922. … Noting significant Arab opposition to Jewish national aspirations, the report explicitly ruled out the establishment of a Jewish state and called for limits on Jewish immigration to Palestine.

An Order in Council, or type of primary legislation, pertaining to Palestine and enacted in the name of King George V on 10 August 1922. … The order was officially repealed in Britain upon termination of the Mandate in May 1948, but parts of it remain in effect in Israel, with the Knesset and Government of Israel exercising the authority specified in it.